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Crimea, Sevastopol, Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk are regions of the Russian Federation. They are enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. This is a given."
A huge amount of information in the media does not correspond to reality, with only small portions of it being accurate."
We have already had contacts. (U.S. National Security Adviser Mike) Waltz and (Russian presidential aide Yury) Ushakov had a telephone conversation yesterday, during which certain information was shared with the Russian side,
I think [Russia] rejecting the deal will be unwise politically, diplomatically, but accepting it right now as it is, it’s not going to happen,
Marina Miron, a post-doctoral researcher at the defence studies department at King’s College London, told Al Jazeera Until the ceasefire is implemented and everybody is on the same page, time will pass, which will probably give the Russians the necessary time to at least get Kursk back so that it removes any potential negotiating bonuses for Ukraine.”
If past performance is any guide, [Russia’s] demands will be backed by the US,
Our people are going to Russia right now as we speak. And hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia.”
Speaking with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said Moscow might accept some form of ceasefire, but I don’t see the Kremlin changing its fundamental strategic goal of subjugating Ukraine and having the world accept and validate its brutal aggression,
Mikhail Alexseev, a professor of political science at San Diego State University, told Al Jazeera His message is that whatever Ukraine still control in the Kursk region cannot be used as a kind of leverage to make any territorial
And of course, we need to think about creating a security zone along the state border,
What we are hearing unofficially is that Russia will likely hand its own list of demands before responding to this 30-day proposal by the Americans. They are going to maintain their position which they did in the past. They want Ukraine to drop its demands to join NATO. They don’t want any foreign troops on Ukrainian territory, and they want recognition of the roughly 20 percent of Ukrainian land that Russia occupies,
I stated our position that this is nothing other than a temporary respite for the Ukrainian military, nothing more,
said Ushakov, a former ambassador to Washington who speaks for Russian President Vladimir Putin on major foreign policy issues Before the talks start, and they haven’t started yet, it would be wrong to talk about it in public,
Our task in the near future, in the shortest possible timeframe, is to decisively defeat the enemy entrenched in the Kursk region,
said Putin, a former KGB officer who very rarely wears military uniform It seems to me that no one needs any steps that [merely] imitate peaceful actions in this situation,
The people we talk to here are highly sceptical of any ceasefire agreement, if indeed the Russians agree to one,
But I don’t want to do that because I want to see peace. And we’re getting close to getting something done,
After we receive this information — not through the press but through bilateral dialogue — then the time will come for thinking it over and formulating a position,
Negotiators are indeed flying in, and contacts are indeed planned,
The Russian news agency TASS has just reported that the plane carrying President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff, has crossed into Russian airspace. Of course a critical meeting for the future of Ukraine coming up today between Steve whitkoff, and Russian leadership,
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